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NOVEMBER 1, 2010 10:34 A.M.

Ayuh wrote:

Let's see----

If I ran a business would I rather have the most widgets sold spread over dozens of manufacturers with different unsupervised app stores, & several fragmented OS's flavors---

OR

one basic device/OS/app store the sales of which captured more than 50% of the NET profit of the industry?

Hmmm, that's a tough call.

Needs lots of market research before I decide the route I'd go.

Ayuh

NOVEMBER 1, 2010 10:49 A.M.

@Ayuh wrote:

If I ran a business, I'd want to develop one App and have it run on all platforms. But, unfortunately, Apple does not like this which is the reason why Apple is not allowing Flash on any of its devices. Apple wants to lock everyone down - the apps you make only work with Apple and you can only go through their App Store.

Good for Android and RIM for saying that they will support Flash. Excellent preview of the BlackBerry PlayBook showing off Flash support. App developers love this. Just write your app in Air or Flash and it'll work across all platforms, except Apple of course.

NOVEMBER 1, 2010 10:51 A.M.

Funny Numbers wrote:

There's something up with Apple's numbers. Something that is going on that we don't know about. Something smells rotten.

NOVEMBER 1, 2010 10:52 A.M.

Anonymous wrote:

@ayuh

THAT'S IT！！！！！！！！！！！！！
PERIOD！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！

NOVEMBER 1, 2010 10:58 A.M.

Inad wrote:

Why are people still talking about flash? Flash is like the pager of mobile technology.

Apple creates an excellent product, nothing funny or suspicous about it. It's that simple. This is textbook business 101. Why is that so hard for people to comprehend?

NOVEMBER 1, 2010 11:06 A.M.

Brian wrote:

iPhone app store is phenomenally better than the various and sundry 'Roid app markets, fragmented with less than 1/3 total software of the Apple (original) app store.

'Roids are obvious iPhone wanna-be rip offs. Once iPhone goes to Verizon, it's over for 'Roids. 'Roids have no price advantage, can't run iTunes, can't integrate with audio systems (nearly all of which feature iPod/iPhone/iPad docs). Add to that that software on any one little 'Roid app store won't work on other 'Roids and iPhone has about a TEN TO ONE advantage on Apps!

Apps were what enabled DOS and later Windoze to take over. iPhone has a huge software lead, which is only getting bigger.

'Roid has no tablet version, and won't have for at least a year. By that time, Apple will have sold about 40-50 MILLION iPads (at least).

Finally, NO ONE IS BUYING 'ROID SOFTWARE. This is important. App developers are not making any money off of 'Roid. iPHone on the other hand has shared BILLIONS with their developers.

That Apple actually HAS their own free, app development platform, is a huge BONUS, not a detriment. 'Roid uses GENERIC JAVA. And Google is using it UNLICENSED at that, and ORACLE is currently SUING Google over this. 'Roid has no hope of ever catching iPhone. Half of them sold are only BOGO models, with the carrier desperately trying to sell another contract, but the products mostly sit in a sock drawer, waiting for the main 'Roid to be dropped or dunked. That is one nice benefit of the 'Roids, they will gladly give you an extra one to keep around, just in case. (Anything to keep you from wising up and getting a real iPhone.)

NOVEMBER 1, 2010 11:15 A.M.

@inad wrote:

I agree, FLASH is garbage, I don't miss it in the slightest on the iPhone. YouTube works far better with H.264, as does Netflix, etc… In fact, Netflix is AWESOME on iPhone AND AppleTV!

NOVEMBER 1, 2010 11:19 A.M.

Ratnok wrote:

It's interesting that you have buried Android's domination of the market to nearly a footnote in your Apple praising article. Android is killing RIM and has taken market share from Apple as well on a year over year basis, but you conveniently ignored that.

NOVEMBER 1, 2010 11:20 A.M.

Anonymous wrote:

What Kind of " IDIOT " Still Grumbling About " Flash Support "？？？？？？？？？？
Flash is " Forgone Technologie " which is DYING！！！！！！！！！！！！！！

Apple iPhone has been the leader since 2007. Now iPhone is becoming populous also, in excess of 50 million units around the world and gaining. That's not counting the millions of iPhone clones already made and sold in the Asian black markets. Nobody clone Rim Blackberrys or Android phones, because they are not popular at all. Especially Rim Blackberrys which are going out of business.

On the report much is made of NOKs power outside the USA it is dominating in BRIC, in India NOK has 65% of the smartphone market.

NOVEMBER 1, 2010 2:22 P.M.

Tangy wrote:

and RIM is far from dead, on the contrary, 35% year over year (and this for many years in a row) is not something most of the wall-street darlings can achieve... but then again, so many people are shorting this stock, it will be funny when they will have to cut their losses and get out; I'm afraid we have only seen the beginning of it :-)

NOVEMBER 1, 2010 2:56 P.M.

yz wrote:

Looks like your article is trying to obscure the fact that Android beats Apple with 44% Market Share in Q3 US Market. Only an Apple fanboy would do something like this.

NOVEMBER 1, 2010 7:35 P.M.

Ignorance wrote:

It is really annoying how the only things people ever think regarding flash are ads and videos. oh my god.

NOVEMBER 1, 2010 9:46 P.M.

GF wrote:

Comparing the iphone (a device, or thing) to android (a hackware) is the old apples and oranges deal. Apple makes Things, to which the OS is an accessory. Google (and Microsoft, et al) make hackware -- some of which is given away pretty much free, I might add, on whatever junkware licensed for it.

So this article's headline, in respect to the eternal rugrat hackers' civil war against Apple, is pretty accurate. Apple is still selling tons more Things than anyone else's things.

But even putting all that aside, "market share" is something of a red herring here. If someone makes a vastly superior basketball shoe the fact that umpteen others are making crappy imitations doesn't matter to the people who can afford and appreciate the superior shoe.

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